Speaking about her now iconic speech at the United Nations, Piers claimed that while the Swede is impressive, he finds the way she is going about raising climate change awareness ‘melodramatic’.

He said on Good Morning Britain: ‘She’s highly impressive, a 16-year-old girl who is so articulate, so passionate, I’ve got no problem with that and climate change is a very serious issue, I get it all.

‘There’s something I felt very uncomfortable watching it yesterday. It was all a bit melodramatic, end of the world, apocalyptic. I wonder the impact she’s now having on young people around the world watching this who must be thinking, “Oh my god, the world is literally about to end.” It’s not about to end.

‘I don’t want millions, if not billions, of young people watching Greta do that kind of speech and genuinely think the planet is literally about to end, because it isn’t. So climate change is serious, it should be dealt with, it’s an important issue, but it’s not end of the world stuff in the way she’s portraying it, in my opinion.’

However, the majority of people are hailing Greta as the most influential teenager on the world stage, thanks to her relentless campaigning for environmental issues.

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